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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

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... good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

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... art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

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... the basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

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